Husking-roller.



GEORGE HENRY GEHRKING, ELK MOUND, WISCONSIN.

HUSKING-ROLLER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 2, 1909.

Application filed February 23, 1907. Serial No. 358,903.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. GEHRKING, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Elk Mound, in the county of Dunn and Stateof'Wisconsin, have invented a new and Improved Husking-Roller, of whichthe fol lowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to corn husking and fodder-shredding machines, andits object is to provide a new and improved pair of husking rollers,arranged to prevent crushing of the ear of corn, and to insure an easygripping of the corn stalks, thus permitting of running the machine witha minimum expenditure of power.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations ofthe same, which will be more fully described hereinafter and thenpointed out in the claim.

A practicalembodiment of the invention is represented in theaccompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in whichsimilar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all theviews.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a pair of husking rollers; Fig. 2 is anenlarged transverse section of the same, on the line 22 of Fig. 1, andFig. 3 is a similar view of the same on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

The co-acting husking rollers A and B of a corn husking andfodder-shredding machine, are provided on their shafts C and D with gearwheels E and E in mesh with each other, so that when one of the shafts(as shown the shaft C) is driven, then the husking rollers A and Brotate in unison.

The peripheral faces of the husking rollers A and B are provided withalternating transversely extending annular flanges A, B and with annulargrooves A B the said flanges A of the husking roller A engaging thegrooves B of the other husking roller B, and the flanges B of thehusking rol er B engaging the grooves A of the husking roller A, asplainly indicated in Fig. 1. The husking rollers A and Bare alsoprovided with spaced longitudinally extending recesses or grooves A Badapted to register at the point of contact of the husking rollers A andB.

When the corn husking and fodder-shredding machine is in use and thecorn stalks pass between the rollers A and B, then the ear of corn of astalk strikes one of the annular flanges A, for the latter to tear thecar off the stalk without danger of crushing or of bruising the ear ofcorn in any manner. By having the longitudinally extending grooves orrecesses A B they easily accommodate the stalk, so that the stalk is notliable to be unduly wedged between the rotating rollers, andconsequently it requires comparatively little power to turn the huskingrollers.

The husking rollers shown and described are alike in construction, andcan be cheaply manufactured and readily applied to corn husking andfodder-shredding machines as now constructed.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

A pair of coacting husking rollers, each having annular flanges andannular recesses spaced apart from each other and alternately arranged,the flanges of one roller running in the recesses of the other, and theperiphery of the rollers between the flanges and recesses being providedwith spaced longitudinal grooves for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

Witnesses:

A. B. AUSMAN, ARTHUR HOWE.

